We Moved In with My Husband’s Grandmother to Care for Her – Before She Died, She Told Me About a Buried Chest That Would Reveal the Truth About Him

“But Marissa didn’t leave you on a sidewalk,” I said, shaking my head. “She got someone to help.

That doesn’t make it okay, but —”

“Are you seriously defending that woman right now?” Caleb asked, his face hardening.

“No, I’m not defending her,” I said. “I’m saying that maybe she was scared. She was a young mother.

She thought she was doing the safest thing. And Eleanor… Eleanor cut her out completely.”

“She did it because she had to,” he snapped.

“Marissa didn’t want me, Layla!”

“But she sent letters, Caleb. Every year. They were unopened.

Surely that has to count for something.”

“Eleanor protected me from whatever lies Marissa wrote in those letters. Don’t you get it?”

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